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The Sun Down Motel - Simone St James
Dec. 14th, 2023 12:41 pmWell, that sure was a book. That I read.
The tl;dr gist of it: in 1982, a young woman, Viv, working as an all-night motel clerk in a small town in rural New York goes missing, along with a string of other young women in the town she lives in. In 2017, her niece Carly shows up to try to find out what happened to her, and soon begins to realize the motel is haunted.
The eeriness and ambiance of the motel is genuinely really fun - not outright horrifying, but tense and creepy - as is the general sense of the motel and the town never having really moved on much from the 80s. And the mystery was interesting enough to keep me reading, with the layered mysteries of Viv trying to solve the other girls' murders in the 1980s and her niece trying to solve theirs and hers in the modern day.
Eventually, though, it all ended up in a 7-car coincidence and bad decision pile-up.
( Major spoilers )
The tl;dr gist of it: in 1982, a young woman, Viv, working as an all-night motel clerk in a small town in rural New York goes missing, along with a string of other young women in the town she lives in. In 2017, her niece Carly shows up to try to find out what happened to her, and soon begins to realize the motel is haunted.
The eeriness and ambiance of the motel is genuinely really fun - not outright horrifying, but tense and creepy - as is the general sense of the motel and the town never having really moved on much from the 80s. And the mystery was interesting enough to keep me reading, with the layered mysteries of Viv trying to solve the other girls' murders in the 1980s and her niece trying to solve theirs and hers in the modern day.
Eventually, though, it all ended up in a 7-car coincidence and bad decision pile-up.
( Major spoilers )